Billene Seyoum said on Tuesday. Billene rejected a statement by the TPLF, the party that controls

In response, Abiy sent more troops to the northern region.... The TPLF led Ethiopia's ruling

NAIROBI( Reuters)-United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday he was alarmed by reports that rebellious Tigrayan forces had taken over two key Ethiopian towns of Dessie and Kombolcha." Continued fighting prolongs the dire humanitarian crisis in northern Ethiopia.... A day earlier, it said it had also seized Dessie in Ethiopia's Amhara region where tens of thousands of ethnic Amharas have sought refuge from an escalation in fighting.... The government denied this. War broke o

By Dawit Endeshaw3 Min ReadADDIS ABABA( Reuters)-Ethiopia will free several opposition leaders from

TPLF dominated the central government for decades before Abiy came to power in 2018.... His government

ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front( TPLF).... But some parts in the west and south are

of TPLF-aligned troops and militias, if it goes ahead, would mark the closest Ethiopia has come to a

Bekele Gerba’s son Samuel Bekele later tweeted the two men were freed.... The government declared victory three weeks later. Months of fighting and reports of grave rights abuses followed.... The Ethiopian and Eritrean militaries withdrew from most of Tigray at the end of June, but the U.N. said a “ de facto government blockade ” prevented aid from entering....

. TPLF leaders were not immediately available for comment.( Reporting by Dawit Endeshaw; Writing by

leaders were also detained in the wake of deadly riots that killed hundreds.... The TPLF has since